I love maths and creating maths resources that fun, simple and engaged to encourage my students enjoy Maths. My passion is to create resources that encourage kids to love maths and to help teachers to prep their maths classes with a little time consuming. 😊
I love maths and creating maths resources that fun, simple and engaged to encourage my students enjoy Maths. My passion is to create resources that encourage kids to love maths and to help teachers to prep their maths classes with a little time consuming. 😊
A video lesson (about 8 minutes) to learn the introduction to Pythagoras’ Theorem.
The Video Lesson shows step by step how the Pythagoras’s Theorem works for right angled triangles.
Grades: 8th to 10th
Learning Outcomes:
• Identify the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle
• Understand the relationship between the side lengths of a right-angled triangle
• Understand Pythagoras’ theorem for right-angled triangles
• Use Pythagoras Theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse given the other two sides
• Use Pythagoras Theorem to find a side of a right-angled triangle given one side and the hypotenuse
Teaching Idea:
Teacher explains the Pythagoras’ Theorem using the video lesson (about 8 minutes)
Alternative way:
students just watch the video lesson.
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Investigate Pythagoras’ Theorem and its application to solving simple problems involving right angled triangles (ACMMG222)
Apply Pythagoras’ theorem to solve problems (ACMEM116)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Pythagoras Theorem
Measurement and Geometry
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CALCULATING WAGES & SALARIES WORKBOOK
Scaffolded Notes + Worksheets + solutions + mini folded notes to learn and practise how to calculate wages and salaries for various time periods.
Grades: 9th to 12th
Learning Outcomes:
Calculate earnings from wages and salaries
Calculate earnings from wages for a various time of periods, given an hourly rate of pay.
Calculate weekly, fortnightly, monthly and yearly earnings
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Calculate weekly or monthly wage from an annual salary, wages from an hourly rate (ACMGM002)
Convert units of rates occurring in practical situations to solve problems (ACMEM015)
Financial Maths Resources:
Financial Maths: Calculating Wages and Salaries
Financial Maths:Comparing Wages and Salaries & Job Advertisements
Financial Maths: Calculating Overtime Pay
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Scaffolded Note about how to calculate wages and salaries for various time periods and overtime.
Grades: 9th to 12th
Learning Outcomes:
Calculate earnings from wages and salaries for various time periods, including increased rates for overtime.
Find the equivalent number of hours worked at normal pay.
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Calculate weekly or monthly wage from an annual salary, wages from an hourly rate (ACMGM002)
More Resources
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
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A video, PowerPoint & worksheets to practise times table 1 × 1 to 10 × 12.
The Times table drills with two versions: with timer and without timer.
The bundle includes:
Times Tables 1 to 12 Video & PowerPoint
Times Tables 1 to 12 Worksheets
Grades: 2nd to 5th
Learning Outcomes:
Practise multiplication facts 1 × 1 to 10 × 12.
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts (ACMNA075)
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Printable worksheets and PowerPoint slides to practise times table 1 × 1 to 10 × 12.
The Times table drills with two versions: with timer and without timer.
Grades: 2nd to 5th
Learning Outcomes:
Practise multiplication facts 1 × 1 to 10 × 12.
Also suitable for Australian Curriculum:
Recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts (ACMNA075)
Other Resources about Times Tables
Times Tables Worksheets and PowerPoint
Times Tables Video and PowerPoint
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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A video lesson in mp4 format and a PowerPoint Show to practise times table 1 × 1 to 10 × 12.
Grades: 2nd to 5th
Learning Outcomes:
Practise multiplication facts 1 × 1 to 10 × 12.
Also suitable for Australian Curriculum:
Recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts (ACMNA075)
Other Resources about Times Tables
Times Tables Worksheets and PowerPoint
Times Tables Video and PowerPoint
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Christmas Colouring page - FREEBIE
A fun classroom activity to practise the order of mathematical operations.
Students practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers using BODMAS or PEMDAS rules and colouring the page.
The answer key is also included.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)
Grades: 4th to 8th
Learning Outcomes:
Apply the order of operations to perform calculations involving more than one operation.
Also suitable for Australian Curriculum
Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers (ACMNA123)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Algebra Mazes for students to practise simplifying algebraic expressions (Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing algebraic expressions)
The resource is in Printable (pdf) and PowerPoint Slides.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)
Grades: 7th to 9th
Teaching Ideas:
Students work individually or in pairs to complete the algebra mazes then they swap their page with their friend or another pair to check the answers.
Learning Outcomes:
Recognise and use equivalent algebraic expressions (e.g. a + a = 2 x a = 2a, b + b +b +b = 4 x b = 4b)
Recognise like terms and add and subtract them to simplify algebraic expressions, eg a + 2b +3a =4a + 2b
Practise simplifying algebraic expressions that involve multiplication and division.
Simplify algebraic expressions involving the four operations
Also suitable for Australian Curriculum
Simplify algebraic expressions involving the four operations (ACMNA192)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Financial Mathematics: Calculating Overtime Pay
This resource includes:
Lesson Plan in PowerPoint (Editable).
Teacher can edit the info, the lesson procedure and duration of the lesson that is suitable with your class. Estimate duration: 40 minutes.
Lesson in PowerPoint (Editable and clickable)
Teacher follows the PowerPoint slides for the lesson procedure.
Student’s workbook in two styles
Solutions
The workbook comes in 2 styles.
Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank notes, worksheets and Homework
Style 2: Cover, completed notes, worksheets and Homework
Total pages in each workbook: 12
Easy classroom preparation:
• Just print and staple all pages together to make a workbook.
• Use the PowerPoint slides for the lesson procedure.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy).
Grades: 9th to 12th
Learning Outcomes:
Calculate earnings from wages for various time periods, given an hourly rate of pay, including increased rates for overtime and special rates for Sundays and public holidays.
Find the equivalent number of hours worked at normal pay.
Read an award or pay scale table and compare pay rates and conditions for different positions.
Skill Focus:
Working mathematically, communicating and reasoning
Read an award or pay scale table and compare pay rates and conditions for different positions.
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Calculate weekly or monthly wage from an annual salary, wages from an hourly rate including situations involving overtime and other allowances and earnings based on commission or piecework (ACMGM002)
Convert units of rates occurring in practical situations to solve problems (ACMEM015)
Financial Maths Resources:
Financial Maths: Calculating Wages and Salaries
Financial Maths:Comparing Wages and Salaries & Job Advertisements
Financial Maths: Calculating Overtime Pay
More Resources:
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Consumer Math
Measurement and Geometry
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Financial Mathematics Lesson 2:
Comparing Wages and Salaries & Job Advertisement (Pair Tasks)
Students work in pairs to complete all tasks.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:
Lesson Plan in PowerPoint (Editable).
Teacher types the expected learning outcomes/ standards
Lesson in PowerPoint (Editable and clickable)
Teacher follows the PowerPoint slides for the lesson procedure.
Student’s workbook
Solutions
Easy classroom preparation:
• Just print and staple all pages together to make a workbook for each student.
• Use the PowerPoint slides for the lesson procedure
Grades: 9th to 12th
Learning Outcomes:
• Comparing wages and salaries
• Calculate earnings from wages for various time periods, given an hourly rate of pay.
• Calculate weekly, fortnightly, monthly and yearly earnings
Skill Focus:
Working mathematically, communicating and reasoning
• Read and understand the content of the employment pages of a newspaper.
• Understand how to interpret a job advertisement.
• Use classifieds and advertisements to compare pay rates and conditions for different positions
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Calculate weekly or monthly wage from an annual salary, wages from an hourly rate… Use classifieds and online advertisements to compare pay rates and conditions for different positions (Problem Solving) (ACMGM002)
Convert units of rates occurring in practical situations to solve problems (ACMEM015)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Financial Mathematics Lesson 1: Calculating Wages and Salaries
This resource includes:
Lesson Plan in PowerPoint (Editable).
Teacher type the expected learning outcomes/ standards
Lesson in PowerPoint (Editable and clickable)
Teacher follows the PowerPoint slides for the lesson procedure.
Student’s workbook in two styles
Exit Ticket in PowerPoint (Editable). Print the page after edited.
Solutions
The workbook comes in 2 styles.
Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank notes, worksheets and Homework
Style 2: Cover, completed notes, worksheets and Homework
Total pages in each workbook: 16
Easy classroom preparation: Just print and staple all pages together to
make a workbook.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy).
Grades: 9th to 12th
Learning Outcomes:
Calculate earnings from wages and salaries
Calculate earnings from wages for a various time of periods, given an hourly rate of pay.
Calculate weekly, fortnightly, monthly and yearly earnings
Skill Focus:
Calculating elapsed time
Rounding money to the nearest cent.
Converting income from one period to another.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:
File 1: Resource Description (pdf format)
File 2: Income Lesson (in PowerPoint, editable and clickable)
File 3: Workbook Style 1
File 4: Workbook Style 2
File 5: Answer Keys
File 6: Exit Tickets (in PowerPoint, editable)
File 7: Lesson plan (in PowerPoint, editable)
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Calculate weekly or monthly wage from an annual salary, wages from an hourly rate including situations involving overtime and other allowances and earnings based on commission or piecework (ACMGM002)
Convert units of rates occurring in practical situations to solve problems (ACMEM015)
Consumer Math flipbooks help students to
understand the concept of buying on terms.
calculate the cost of buying items by paying a deposit and making regular repayments that include simple interest
The flipbook comes in 2 styles.
Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank notes and worksheets
Style 2: Cover, completed notes and worksheets
Total pages in each flipbook: 11
Easy classroom preparation: Just print and glue each page in students’ notebooks or staple all pages together to make a flipbook.
Answer keys and students’ folded notes are also included.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)
Grades: 9th to 12th
Key learning:
Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods and simple interest.
Understand buying on terms.
Calculate buying on terms deposit.
Finding the interest charged in dollars or as a percentage of the balance owing.
Calculate the total cost using buying on terms.
Calculate the extra pay using the buying on terms method.
Calculate each regular instalment.
Also suitable for Australian Curriculum:
Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods (MA4-6NA)
Solve problems involving simple interest (ACMNA211)
Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
Calculate a percentage of a given amount (ACMEM011)
Determine one amount expressed as a percentage of another (ACMEM012)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Consumer Math - Discount on Discounted Price Activity
Students apply strategies and work mathematically to calculate the amount paid after two consecutive discounts are applied.
Before students complete the tasks, the teacher and students complete the example question on page 1.
Key Learning:
Calculating the amount paid after two consecutive discounts are applied
Calculate the amount saved by paying cash.
Compare two consecutive discounts and a single discount (the sum of two consecutive discounts) on the original price.
The activity comes in 2 styles.
Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank example and tasks.
Style 2: Cover, filled (completed) example and tasks.
Total pages for each set: 8 pages
Easy classroom preparation: Just print and glue each page in students’ notebooks or staple all pages together to make a flipbook. Solutions are also included.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)
Grades: 5th to 9th
Australian Curriculum:
Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods (MA4-6NA)
Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
Calculate a percentage of a given amount (ACMEM011)
Determine the overall change in a quantity following repeated percentage changes; for example, an increase of 10% followed by a decrease of 10% (ACMEM063)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Consumer Math flipbooks help students learn and understand methods of purchasing goods with cash or on a lay-by plan.
The flipbook comes in 2 styles.
Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank notes and worksheets
Style 2: Cover, completed notes and worksheets
Total pages in each flipbook: 13
Easy classroom preparation: Just print and glue each page in students’ notebooks or staple all pages together to make a flipbook.
Answer keys and students’ folded notes are also included.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)
Grades: 5th to 9th
Key learning:
Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods (with cash or a lay-by plan)
Calculate the amount saved by paying cash.
Understand the lay-buy (lay-by) method
Finding the discount or deposit as a percentage of the marked price
Finding the original (market) price
Calculate the lay-buy deposit.
Calculate each instalment on lay-buy.
Australian Curriculum:
Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods (MA4-6NA)
Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
Calculate a percentage of a given amount (ACMEM011)
Determine one amount expressed as a percentage of another (ACMEM012)
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Fractions Operations Bundle!
The bundle includes:
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Multiplying Fractions Using Cancelling Common Factors
Dividing Fractions
More Resources:
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Meaurement and Geometry
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Measurement and Geometry Bundle about Area of Trapeziums
The bundle includes:
Math Manipulatives Part 1 for the Trapezium Area
Math Manipulatives Part 2 for the Trapezium Area
Area of Trapeziums | Notes & Worksheets
Solving Trapeziums Problems
A series of fun activities to:
practise working mathematically, applying strategies and reasoning involving 2D shapes.
understand the relationship between shapes and areas.
improve problem-solving skills and understanding of mathematical language and notation.
develop critical thinking skills and the ability to identify patterns and
apply mathematical principles to real-world problems.
More Resources:
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Meaurement and Geometry
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Identifying Significant Figures:
4 tasks (40 questions) for students to practise about significant figures:
Determine the number of significant figures for the given numbers.
Short answer questions to check students’ understanding of significant figures.
Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)
Grades: 8th to 10th
Geometry Resources:
Trapezium Area: Lesson Notes + Worksheets + Answers
Solving Trapezium Problems
Math Manipulatives Part 1 flipbook about the Trapezium Area
Geometry | The Angle Sum of a Triangle | Printable Activity
More Resources:
Colouring Pages
Fun Activity
Topics:
Numbers
Times Table
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Significant Figures
Consumer Maths
Financial Maths
Algebra
Measurement and Geometry
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Solving the trapezium problems.
Tasks to practice working mathematically, applying strategies and reasoning to solve trapezium shape problems.
This activity will help students to:
practise working mathematically, applying strategies and reasoning involving 2D shapes.
understand the relationship between shapes and areas.
improve problem-solving skills and understanding of mathematical language and notation.
apply mathematical principles to real-world problems.
Task 1: Trapezium Field
Students solve two trapezium problems (right trapezium and isosceles trapezium).
Task 2: Trapezium Resort
Students solve problems involving trapezium and triangles in a hexagonal field.
Task 3: Trapezium Garden
Students solve problems involving congruent isosceles trapeziums and triangles in a rectangular field.
Total pages in each set: 8
Easy classroom preparation: Just print then glue each page onto students’ notebooks or staple all pages together.
Answer keys are also included.
Skill Level: Easy
Grades: 6th to 9th
Key Learnings:
Demonstrate that the trapezium area is the average length of its parallel sides multiplied by the perpendicular height. A = h/2(a + b)
Apply strategies, reasoning, and explain mathematical relationships to solve trapezium and other 2D shape problems.
Australian Curriculum:
Recognise and explain mathematical relationships using reasoning (MA4-3WM).
Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
Communicate and connect mathematical ideas using appropriate terminology, diagrams and symbols (MA4-1WM)
Establish the formulas for areas of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms and use these in problem solving (ACMMG159)
Find areas of trapeziums, rhombuses and kites (ACMMG196)
Resources about Trapeziums:
Trapezium Area: Lesson Notes + Worksheets + Answers
Math Manipulatives Part 1 for the Trapezium Area
Math Manipulatives Part 2 for the Trapezium Area
Solving Trapezium Problems
Trapezium Areas Flipbooks contain covers, scaffolded notes and worksheets to practise finding trapezium areas
The notes with examples show step by step how to find the trapezium area
Worksheets A & B: general questions
Worksheets C & D: Challenge Questions.
Students work out the missing lengths before finding the trapezium area.
Flipbooks are available in 2 styles.
Style A: Cover, fill in the blank notes and worksheets.
Teacher and students work together to fill the scaffolded notes.
Style B: Cover, filled notes and worksheets.
Total pages in each flipbook: 10
Easy classroom preparation: Just print then glue each page onto students’ notebooks or staple all pages together.
Answer keys and mini folded notes are also included.
Skill Level: Easy
Grades: 6th to 9th
Key Learnings:
Demonstrate that the trapezium area is the average length of its parallel sides multiplied by the perpendicular height. A = h/2(a + b)
Use the trapezium formula to calculate trapezium areas and convert between area units
Apply strategies, reasoning, and explain mathematical relationships using other two-dimensional shapes to find the trapezium area
Australian Curriculum:
Recognise and explain mathematical relationships using reasoning (MA4-3WM).
Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
Communicate and connect mathematical ideas using appropriate terminology, diagrams and symbols (MA4-1WM)
Establish the formulas for areas of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms and use these in problem solving (ACMMG159)
Find areas of trapeziums, rhombuses and kites (ACMMG196)
Methods to find the trapezium area:
Math Manipulatives Part 1 for the Trapezium Area
Math Manipulatives Part 2 for the Trapezium Area
Math Manipulatives Part 2 flipbook about the Trapezium Area
A series of fun activities to practice using different types of 2D shapes to prove and establish the trapezium area formula.
This activity will help students to
practise working mathematically, applying strategies and reasoning involving 2D shapes.
understand the relationship between shapes and areas.
improve problem-solving skills and understanding of mathematical language and notation.
develop critical thinking skills and the ability to identify patterns and
apply mathematical principles to real-world problems.
Task 1:
To find the area of a trapezium using a triangle area.
Task 2:
To find the area of a trapezium using a parallelogram area.
Task 3:
To prove the area of a trapezium is the area sum of a rectangle and a triangle.
Skill Level: Easy
Grades: 6th to 9th
Learning Outcomes:
Demonstrate that the trapezium area is the average length of its parallel sides multiplied by the perpendicular height. A = h/2(a + b)
Apply strategies, reasoning and mathematical methods using other two-dimensional shapes to find the trapezium area.
Australian Curriculum:
Manipulate, classify and draw two-dimensional shapes, including equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles and describes their properties (MA3-15MG).
Recognise and explain mathematical relationships using reasoning (MA4-3WM).
Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
Communicate and connect mathematical ideas using appropriate terminology, diagrams and symbols (MA4-1WM)
Establish the formulas for areas of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms and use these in problem solving (ACMMG159)
Find areas of trapeziums, rhombuses and kites (ACMMG196)
Total pages: 32 (Covers + Tasks + Answers)
Geometry Resources:
Math Manipulatives Part 1 flipbook about the Trapezium Area
Geometry | The Angle Sum of a Triangle | Printable Activity